Paulus Magnus
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I'm planning a quick trip there in the next 7 days and would appreciate any advice on who's good, reputable and safe.
Thanks.
Thanks.
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Paulus Magnus:I'm planning a quick trip there in the next 7 days and would appreciate any advice on who's good, reputable and safe.
Thanks.
Paulus Magnus:Just wanted to add a note of thanks to gxdoyle for their recommendation.
I just got back from Phuket a few hours ago but had a fantastic time. Jon from Siam Dive 'n' Sail was superb and first of all got us on a 4 day liveaboard with 6 hours notice. We went on the Rhapsody to the Similan Islands, 14 dives and excellent guides and the dive crew were just faultless. There was nothing to complain about but the 120 dishes on the menu to choose from for lunch and dinner was just the best feature of the trip.
We then booked a 2 day trip to Phi Phi Island with 7 dives operated by Calypso Divers. Although the tour leader was excellent, our guide was well below par with no knowledge of fish signals and a tendency to treat my female dive buddy as a second class citizen (i.e. asking me if it was OK for her to do a deep dive of 30m, even though she's an Advanced diver, with 40+ dives logged and that she was sat next to me at the time!; or the time he beckoned her to come over and put her finger in a clam because he thought it was funny). We also had a hiccup with the hotel booking that made the whole trip very stressful and not very enjoyable. The diving was also worse than the Similans with poor viz and strong currents although we did see many Leopard Sharks which helped to make up for it.
Jon was a constant source of information though as he helped us to find hotels, get cheap taxi tours, find a cinema and find so many other non-diving related bits of information. It was our first liveaboard and our first trip to Thailand but overall Jon, Siam Dive 'n' Sail and Rhapsody made the trip exceptional.